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Muse
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I aplogize for the error. Sometime the internet provider on my tmobile sidekick can get screwy. I think I'mn being spied on. Not being paranoid, I have nothing to hide. Theyre the ones who are being paranoid. heh
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#2642 |
Village Idiot.
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Begging for Scraps
Join Date: Aug 2004
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You really ought to look that word up Geggy...Here's a handy link
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#2644 |
Mostly harmless
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#2645 |
Gazerbeam's Protege
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Nobody is suggesting that UFOs had anything to do with 9/11. What they are saying is that the thought processes you are going through are similar to those that the UFO conspirasists go through.
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#2646 |
Fortean
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#2647 |
Village Idiot.
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Already been done: http://www.orbwar.com/ufo-photos-wtc-attack-9-11.htm
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Evil Fokker
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#2649 |
Downsitting Citizen
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Oct 2004
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The 911 truth movement will never reach a consensus about what happened on 911, simply because all their 'evidence' and anyalses are so obviously mutually exclusive, yet few of them have the backbone to criticize any 'evidence' which appears to implicate the Conspirators. After being unable to formulate a consistent theory the 911 truth movement will become bitterly fragmented with public disputes between various competing theorists appearing all over the internet. One or more individuals will come to light who claim to have insider knowledge of the plot or where somehow directly involved in it. They will of course be able to provide no convincing evidence of this. Supporters will claim its because the evidence is being erased. There will be a number of breakthroughs which will turn out to be hoaxes. But when the number of hoaxes becomes high enough, theorists will begin to claim that they can't all be hoaxes. More books will be written, more 'documentaries' assembled, more money will be made. Yet no living person will be directly and unambigiously accused, let alone brought to trial. The 911 conspiracy will seep further and further into popular culture but yet be taken less and less seriously, and not make the slightest bit of difference. As more real information emerges, the theories will become even more desperately convoluted, to the point that no serious 'truth seeker' believes the silly theories that were knocking around back in 2006 911 theorists will reach old age and die, having unearthed nothing of any value, or even gotten into trouble with the law. |
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#2651 |
Banned
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#2652 |
Ardent Formulist
Join Date: Jun 2005
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#2653 |
Merchant of Doom
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not in Hell, but I can see it from here on a clear day...
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He already has, you just have to use your "Secret DeKoder RingTM". Check this week's Captain Crunch.
ETA: By the way, gigger, that wasn't Ad Hominem. Ad Hominem is not a fancy-shmansy word for insults. Ad Hominem is specifically claiming the argument is wrong because the person making it is an idiot/liar/ugly/smells funny/whatever. My argument is that you're an idiot because your argument is wrong. Spectacularly wrong. Astoundingly wrong. So wrong, the word wrong doesn't even begin to describe how wrong it is. We need a new word to describe something as wrong as your arguments...geggerious. My comments were a conclusion based on evidence, not an argument against your "theory". Although, it isn't even a theory, as it's internally inconsistent and disconnected. More of a hypothetical amalgam. |
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#2654 |
Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Conspiracy?
The great thing about chasing shadows, pookas, and imaginary bad guys, (and big foot)! is that you never catch them - you chase and chase, and never catch 'em. Unlike real bad guys. All this time on spent on "squibs" "controlled demo" and we haven't even scratched the rest of the loose changers idiotic conclusions. (Like what direction does the sun come up in Dylan Avery? Pod? ok- its a pod, now where is the engine shadow? First rule of film making - where is the light coming from kids?) |
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#2655 |
Ardent Formulist
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Wackos believe in UFO's. Wackos also believe in 9/11 conspiracies. (Not the same wackos, necessarily, but wackos nevertheless. ) Why do we call them wackos, you ask? Because neither have any substantial basis for their beliefs. The only difference between them and a crazy man talking to himself on the street corner is that they are able to mask their delusions with a facade of "scholarship" and "research".
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#2656 |
Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Aggle - its harder and harder to find the crazy guy on the corner talking to himself - sometimes it REALLY is a cell phone.
The conversation is the same, but there IS somebody on the other end. |
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#2657 |
Ardent Formulist
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Austin, TX
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Here are my explanations:
"It wasn't a year until after the catalyzing event that I contacted a friend from NYC" Explanation: You're not a very good friend. It took you a YEAR to contact this person after 9/11? "repeated images of the plane crashing, towers falling were still being shown on television at the time" Explanation: Slow news days. Alternate explanation: Cutbacks at the NYC TV stations, so old footage is recycled. Alternate explanation: Competition for ratings. Pick one. "whereas in my home state it was forbidden to show images of sept 11 on television." Explanation: You are mistaken about the images being forbidden. It's a YEAR OLD NEWS STORY, for heavens sake. Why would they still be showing it? Alternate explanation: You are mistaken about the images being forbidden. You haven't seen it because you don't watch the news, since George Bush has a stranglehold on the media. Now, how do YOU explain why any of this is relevant? |
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#2659 |
Merchant of Doom
Join Date: Sep 2002
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You missed an explanation, aggle. It was a year after the event.
One year later. I don't think there was a single network that didn't have some type of memorial show on the anniversary date, and you would expect a LOT more of this in New York. And, likely, some networks may have made the decision not to broadcast the more disturbing scenes from that day, leading to gledgy's "banned from showing footage" comments. It's geggerious. |
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#2660 |
Fiend God
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In a post-fact world
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Fiend God
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#2662 |
Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Belz...
Take a look... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can clearly see the squibs ejecting. The ejection of the second squib in the picture is far below the collapsing area of the tower. In an event of controlled demo, squibs eject out of buildings at the same time to allow the building to free fall. Squibs ejected out of the wtc tower and the top followed through. The tower couldn't have possibly came down without stripping and cutting of the core to weaken the structure of the building unless explosives were preplanted. I'd have my doubt if puff of smoke ejected of every floor as if the pancaking theory was true. But the problem is here in this picture... ![]() In the area of the puff of smoke ejection did not appear to be damaged. There were no signs of trusses giving away, otherwise the cracks of the concrete of the tower would be clearly visible. So what exactly do you think caused the ejecting of the puff of smoke? The only logical explanation for this is that squibs were making a clean cut through the concrete of the towers. |
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Merchant of Doom
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geggy:
Those are not squibs, no matter how much you want them to be. Those are most likely the result of air pressure, as the collapsing upper floors are pushing dust and air downward, increasing the pressure to the point that it blows out some windows. Besides, the support is in the cneter of the building...why would you expect to see squibs outside? And why would they only be in the center of each side of the building? Your argument is getting geggerious again. Have any evidence? |
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Illuminator
Join Date: May 2005
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Relatedly, there were no vertical concrete structures in the World Trade Center. Only the floors themselves were concrete. Any explosive charge set to demolish them would be expected to expel its ejecta up or down (depending on whether it's set above or below the structure), not out.
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#2665 |
Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
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The only logical explanation for this is that squibs were making a clean cut through the concrete of the towers.[/quote]
All floors in the WTC were not equal. Some were machinery (ac, water pumps, compressors, etc.) some were office space. Some were full of stoff, and some were vacant. That puff is the path of least resistance - And what is an "explosion" anyway? The puff YOU see in your "squib" is just a push of matter away from a released compression of air - it doesn't matter if it goes 'boom' or pfffft - its still the compression of air. |
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#2666 |
Critical Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2005
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I thought a squib was a pretend bomb used in the movies?
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#2667 |
Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Yup - and the LC'ers are full of pretend stuff if you listen to their soundtracks - The entire thing is so laughably bad. Making me want to take it and re-narrate it, or narrate over it. Since there is very little footage that belongs to these kids, its all purchased from the original sources, it would be a very doable thing. Me? I'd rather go after the real bad guys than chase shadows. LC's may not be charging for the film, but there is a pile $$$$$ to be made in speaking fees, and expenses. Not a bad living. If they really believed that the country was as lost as they say, there is nothing to stop them from leaving - the door swing both ways. Ask Roman Polanski |
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Evil Fokker
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#2669 |
NWO Master Conspirator
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Exactly, in every single controlled demolition the "squibs" go off before the building starts to collapse. But for WTC 1, 2, and 7 no squibs appear until after the buildings start to collapse. Because, of course, they're not squibs at all but the result of floors pancaking and expelling debris due to air pressure.
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Oh, geggy,you couldn't have picked a better example of what is NOT an explosion. Again, you act as though you're dealing with people as stupid as you are.
Have you seen the video of that "squib?" No, you haven't, you just post stills from the internet, just like with the bin Laden "confession" tape. You absolutely refuse to do your homework, despite getting dragged behind the woodshed EVERY DAY FOR IT. How many days in a row is that? Will you go back and show us the last time you used an example to prove a point and it was correct? That's a serious question, geggy. YOU'VE MADE 120+ POSTS. HAVE YOU BEEN RIGHT ONCE ABOUT A SINGLE POINT OF FACT? SHOW US AN EXAMPLE. |
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#2671 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: New York
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geggy, I was wondering...
What do you do for a living? |
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#2672 |
Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
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I'm going to repeat myself, because I want geggy to get the point and I'm not sure he can read more than a few sentences without frying his neurons.
geggy, please show us ONE example that you've used as evidence to support your conspiracy theory that has been correct. And if you've made over 120 posts and not gotten anything right, what does that tell you? |
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#2673 |
Penultimate Amazing
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Penultimate Amazing
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So I don't know a lot about controlled demolitions. I was wondering, could one of those who think the pictures above are indicative of a controlled demolition show me a picture of a known controlled demolition that looks the same?
I know you aren't building demolitions experts, so I would assume that you have pictures and video of controlled demolitions that you have compared to the WTC towers falling and seen comparable features. I mean, how else could you justify using these pictures to claim that "it looks like a controlled demolition" if you haven't documented similar effects in known controlled demolitions? |
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#2676 |
Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Originally Posted by [COLOR=black
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NWO Master Conspirator
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
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In the thread about my "LC" critique, I saw that TheQuest, one of the dumbest of them all said he was willing to "concede" the Pentagon. Boy, Rumsfeld will be glad to have it back!
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
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In regards to the relationship of the Chertoffs a person at this thread:
http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Ch...?showtopic=682 writes:
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